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H. R. STEVENS.

TANK FOR WINDMILLS; No. 297,468. Patented Apr. 22, 1884.

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TANK FOR WINDIVHLLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,4:68, dated April22, 1884.

Application filed March 10, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY R. STEVENS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and 'useful Tank for Windmills, of whichthe fol.-

lowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

Heretofore the watertanks used in connection with windmills for holdinglarge quantithe bottom and the body and renders the tank useless.

My object is to obviate these defects; and to this end the inventionconsists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will behereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is aview in perspective of the tank. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional View. Fig. 3 is a view of the hoop, and Fig. 4 is a view ofthe strengthening-wire.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, a designates thebottom of the tank,

which is of redwood, or other Suitable wood;

and b is the body of the tank, which is made of two or more widths ofsheet iron, galvanized, to give it the requisite height.

edges of the widths united by rivets, as shown,

The end are then lapped and riveted together, forming 4o the verticalseam z. The wooden bottomisdriven down into the body to within about twoand a quarter inches from its lower edge, and the hoop c is then drivenover the body until it occupies the space directly opposite the edge ofthe bottom. The tank is then turned bottom uppermost, and the wire ringdis laid on the bottom within the projecting edge e, and the latter isthen hammered in over the wire ring d, and its edge driven into theunder face of the wooden bottom to clinch it and hold the wire andbottom securely in place.

This water-tank is simple, cheap, and durable, as it will not beinjuriously affected by exposure to the weather.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-' Thehereindescribed water-tank, consisting of the galvanized sheet-metalbody, having the wooden'bottom fitting tightly therein within a shortdistance of the lower edge of the body. in combination with theencirclinghoop directly opposite the edge of the wooden bottom, the wirering below the under face of the bottom, and the lower projecting edgeof the body bent inwardly over the wire ring and clinched into the underface of the bottom, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in p resence of witnesses.

HARRY R. STEVENS.

W'itnesses:

THEO. MUNGEN, G. B. HARRIS, E. G. SIGGERS.

